Years after the mysterious death of a coed whose body was discovered in their apartment, two college roommates find their lives thrust back together in a life-and-death game of the wits. Each leverages the secrets they hold against the other in their respective quests for survival. One, now an auditing firm partner, seeks the truth he needs to end his life of hell. The other, CEO of the chemical company under audit, looks to protect the fortune he has amassed in an ingeniously contrived corporate takeover plot by a pharmaceutical giant. Its bounty is a miracle drug that holds the promise of being one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of all time. Colorful characters, intricate plot twists, scientific intrigue, and financial realism fuel an exciting yarn that carries the reader higher and higher to the thrilling climax: an encounter in which each man is forced to exercise his last desperate option.